Jesus' Farewell Address: Part II
Weekly Reading
Monday: Leviticus 1
Tuesday: Leviticus 2, Mark 10
Wednesday: Leviticus 3, Mark 11
Thursday: Leviticus 4
Friday: Leviticus 5, Mark 12
Saturday: Psalm 33-34, Proverbs 7
Sunday: 1 Kings 2-9
Tuesday: Leviticus 2, Mark 10
Wednesday: Leviticus 3, Mark 11
Thursday: Leviticus 4
Friday: Leviticus 5, Mark 12
Saturday: Psalm 33-34, Proverbs 7
Sunday: 1 Kings 2-9
Discussion Questions
- What can we as Christians do to stop worry from being a stronghold in our lives?
- What is beautiful about Jesus’ Farewell Address in John 14 as it pertains to your life?
- Because Jesus’ own way was the cross, He became the way for us. What does this mean in your life?
- Jesus, as the Word made flesh, is the embodiment of the very nature of God. Why does this encourage us to pattern our lives after Him?
- How do we receive assurance through the Holy Spirit?
Sermon Notes
Key Passage: John 14:1-17
"Perhaps one of the most amazing features of this 'Farewell Discourse,' as it has come to be called, is its beginning. It is Jesus who is going to the agony of the cross; it is Jesus who is troubled in spirit. Yet on this night when of all nights it would have been appropriate for his disciples to encourage him and support him, we discover that they can see only their loss. Jesus therefore must encourage them. On the very night he is to taste death on their behalf, he speaks to their confused bewilderment, fickle faith, dim vision, and self-absorption; and he says, 'Do not let your hearts be troubled...'" -D.A. Carson
"It is an amazing statement. 'I am the way'—spoken by one whose way was the ignominious shame of a Roman cross, the death of despised and debased criminals. 'I am the truth'—spoken by one about to be condemned by lying witnesses, one who was generally not believed by his own people, by his own family. 'I am the life'—uttered by one whose battered corpse would shortly rest in a dark tomb, sealed up by the authorities." -D.A. Carson
"Theophany: A manifestation of God that is tangible to the human sense. It is a visible appearance of God in the Old Testament period, often, but not always in human form."
-Graham A. Cole
"The reference in John 1:14 to Jesus taking up residence among God's people resulting in the revelation of God's glory also harks back to the Old Testament reference to the manifestation of the presence and the glory (Kabod) of God, be it in theophanies, the tabernacle, of the temple." -Andreas J. Kostenberger
"The special revelatory presence of God formerly contained in the holy of holies of the tabernacle and the temple, has now burst forth into the world in the form of incarnate God, Jesus Christ." -G.K. Beale
"Do you want to know what the character of God is like? Study Jesus. Do you want to know what the holiness of God is like? Study Jesus. Do you want to know what the wrath of God is like? Study Jesus. Do you want to know what forgiveness is like? Study Jesus. Do you want to know what the glory of God is like? Study Jesus all the way to that wretched cross. Study Jesus." -D.A. Carson
"We need help. Help from the inside out... Not near us. Not above us. Not around us. But in us. In the part of us we don't even know. In the heart no one else has seen. In the hidden recesses of our being dwells not an angel, not a philosophy, not a genie, but God." -Max Lucado
"Perhaps one of the most amazing features of this 'Farewell Discourse,' as it has come to be called, is its beginning. It is Jesus who is going to the agony of the cross; it is Jesus who is troubled in spirit. Yet on this night when of all nights it would have been appropriate for his disciples to encourage him and support him, we discover that they can see only their loss. Jesus therefore must encourage them. On the very night he is to taste death on their behalf, he speaks to their confused bewilderment, fickle faith, dim vision, and self-absorption; and he says, 'Do not let your hearts be troubled...'" -D.A. Carson
"It is an amazing statement. 'I am the way'—spoken by one whose way was the ignominious shame of a Roman cross, the death of despised and debased criminals. 'I am the truth'—spoken by one about to be condemned by lying witnesses, one who was generally not believed by his own people, by his own family. 'I am the life'—uttered by one whose battered corpse would shortly rest in a dark tomb, sealed up by the authorities." -D.A. Carson
"Theophany: A manifestation of God that is tangible to the human sense. It is a visible appearance of God in the Old Testament period, often, but not always in human form."
-Graham A. Cole
"The reference in John 1:14 to Jesus taking up residence among God's people resulting in the revelation of God's glory also harks back to the Old Testament reference to the manifestation of the presence and the glory (Kabod) of God, be it in theophanies, the tabernacle, of the temple." -Andreas J. Kostenberger
"The special revelatory presence of God formerly contained in the holy of holies of the tabernacle and the temple, has now burst forth into the world in the form of incarnate God, Jesus Christ." -G.K. Beale
"Do you want to know what the character of God is like? Study Jesus. Do you want to know what the holiness of God is like? Study Jesus. Do you want to know what the wrath of God is like? Study Jesus. Do you want to know what forgiveness is like? Study Jesus. Do you want to know what the glory of God is like? Study Jesus all the way to that wretched cross. Study Jesus." -D.A. Carson
"We need help. Help from the inside out... Not near us. Not above us. Not around us. But in us. In the part of us we don't even know. In the heart no one else has seen. In the hidden recesses of our being dwells not an angel, not a philosophy, not a genie, but God." -Max Lucado
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